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Webster 1913 Edition
Malign
Ma-lign′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Maligned
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Maligning
.] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
[Obs.]
The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they
malign
by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenser.
2.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
To be envied and shot at; to be
maligned
standing, and to be despised falling. South.
Ma-lign′
,Verb.
I.
To entertain malice.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Malign
MALIGN
,Adj.
1.
Having a very evil disposition towards others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious; as malign spirits.2.
Unfavorable; pernicious; tending to injure; as a malign aspect of planets.3.
Malignant; pernicious; as a malign ulcer.MALIGN
,Verb.
T.
The people practice mischief against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods and murdering them.
1.
To traduce; to defame.MALIGN
,Verb.
I.